SAT Vocab Roots

Ab

away: abrogate, abstain

Ambi

both: ambidextrous, ambivalent

Ambul

move or walk: ambulate, somnambulate

Ami

love: amiable, amicable, amity

Contra

against: contradict, contraposition

Cred

believe: credible, credulous, incredulous

Crypt

hidden: cryptic, decrypt, encrypt

Cycl

circle or ring: cycloid, cyclone, cyclotron

Dem

people: demagogue, democracy, demography

Derm

skin: dermatology, hypodermic, intradermal

Dict

speak: edict, indict, malediction

Domin

master: dominant, domineering, dominion

Dur

hard: durable, endurance, obdurate

Ego

self: alter-ego, egomaniacal, egotistical

Esth

feeling: aesthetic, anesthetic

Extra

outside or beyond: extralegal, extraneous, extrapolate

Fid

faith: confident, fidelity, perfidy

Flect

bend: deflect, genuflect, inflection

Flor

flower: efflorescence, florid

Fract/Frag

break: fracture, fragile, refract

Fug

run away: refugee, subterfuge

Gen

birth, production: general, genteel, progeny

Gram

something written: epigram, monogram, phonogram

Graph

to write: bibliography, cosmography, typography

Grat

pleasing: gratify, gratutious, ingratiate

Gress

to sleep, to go: digress, egress, transgress

hetero

different: heterodox, heterogeneous, heteromorphic

homo

same: homogeneous, homologous, homophone

in

toward, not

Idio

peculiar, distinct: idiom, idiosyncrasy

Judi

judge, lawyer: adjudicate, judicial, judicious

Ling

language: linguist, linguistics

Loqu

speak: colloquial, eloquent, loquacious

Magn

large, great: magnanimous, magnate, magnitude

Mal

bad: malcontent, malevolent, malign

Mut

change: immutable, permutation, transmute

Ob

against: obdurate, obtrusive

Phil

love: philanthropist, philosophy, technophile

Per

through, beyond, to ill effect

Plac

calm: complacent, placate, placid

Re

back, again: relegate, remunerate, renege

Sagac

wise: sagacious, sagacity

Sang

blood: sanguinary, sanguine

Sequ

follow: consequently, obsequious, subsequent

Somn

sleep: insomnia, somnambulate

Tac/Tic

be silent: reticent, tacit, taciturn

Troph

feed, grow: autotrouph, heterotroph

Ultim

last: penultimate, ultimate, ultimatum

Vener

respectful: venerable, venerate, veneration

Vit

life: vitality

Voc

voice: advocate, invocation, vociferous

Vol

fly, wish: benevolent volition, voluntary

Aqua/Aque

water: aquatic, aquarium

Bell

war: bellicose, antebellum

Bene/Bon

good: benefactor, bonus

Chron

time: chronology, anachronism

Clud/Clus/Claus

shut, close: conclude, seclusion, claustrophobia

Corp/Corpor

body: corporation, corporeal

Doc/Doct

teach: doctrine, docile

Luc/Lum/Lus

light: translucent, illuminate, lucid

Man/Manu

hand: manual, manipulate

Mit/Mis

send: transmit, dismiss, emissary

Mob/Mot/Mov

move: mobile, motivate, motion

Pater/Patr

father: patriarch, patriot

Port

carry: transport, portable

Scop/Spec/Spic

to examine: telescope, spectator

Vid/Vis

see, look: vision, envision

Struct/Stru

build: structure, construct, instruct

Tang/Tact/Tig

touch: tactile, contact, intangible

Terra/Terr

earth: terrain, terrestial, subterranean

Tract

pull, drag: tractor, detract, attraction

vinc

to conquer; to defeat: invincible

ible

capable of, able to be

Guile

deceit, trickery

be

intensifies meaning

Dogma

established belief

ic

characterized by

Circum

around

Spect

look

Vas

to go or spread

ive

having the quality of

e (prefix)

out

manare (mana)

to flow

sup

form of sub meaning under

con

together, with

trans

across, beyond

scandere (scend)

to climb

sanctio (sanc)

decree, ordinance

be (prefix)

thoroughly

a (greek: prefix)

(about quality) not, without

typikos (typic)

conforming to a type

a (latin: prefix)

(about movement) motion into or toward

melior (latin)

better